Kent Road

Trees can really frustrate. All those leaves and branches. When I first started painting I would often just simplify the shapes like I did here. One of these paintings was juried into a show here in Kansas. I discovered this one that I had put aside and found I really liked it. So it is for sale on dailypaintworks.

Billi's bird

This oil was painted on a Masonite panel. I have the store cut them then I coat them with 3 layers of gesso. 

The rooster is our daughter-in-laws hatched from her incubator. They have a small acreage full of painting subjects which you will see from time to time. 

Cow In Blue

This was an experiment of painting with oil on clay board. It has a watercolor look which I like. It's an 8x10. 

Fall Fields

Salt Cedar Along the Rio Grande

My husband works hard to irradicate salt cedar from the environment but I really like to paint it. Salt cedar was introduced as an ornamental plant but has become very invasive. It drinks up lots of water and makes the soil salty. But the colors are wonderful to paint no wonder people thought it was pretty in their yard. 

The Rio Hondo Valley

This was painted for friends who also like to spend time in the Taos, NM area. It is a pallet knife painting in oil on a 12x24 canvas. Really like this size canvas because it fits well over a fireplace or behind a sofa. I also like the utrech canvas I order on line along with there oil paint. 

Field Work

A simplified landscape painted in oil on a canvas panel. 

Squeeze Me

I love the still life painters on Daily Paint Works. I have made a shadow box out of a black plastic number I found at a big box store. It's not a fancy set up but it helps to capture shadows when I paint. This is my glass juicer that works really well and wonder why they make all those fancy things, simple and effective. Painting was challenging but fun. 

Clouds Over Isletta

This is one of my new pallet knife paintings. I studied with Brian Hinkle at the Center for the Arts in Wichita Kansas. Brian like to lay down his first layer of oil with a pallet knife then refine later with a brush. I tried the knife and really liked the texture it created. I was an avid remodeler for years and often patched holes with a wide blade knife. This technique reminded me of that and I liked it. I have always struggled to lay down enough paint so this has really helped me with that. It also helped me to paint larger, faster and as a result looser. 

Bluffs On Scott County Lake

Green Tea For Two

Snow On The Prairie

This is a pallet knife painting of the Kansas prairie with a light dusting  of snow

Daily Paint Works

I recently joined Daily Paint Works. I am excited to join this group of artists who love to paint as I do. I like that the paintings are small and painted  loosely. Since I have only been painting for the last 18 months I  feel I need to paint often. I hope this will also help me to post to my blog more often if for no other reason than to see my own progress and keep track of things I am learning as I paint.